Overnight UMaine visit awakens ninth-graders’ interest in college, Sun Journal reports
Forty-five freshmen from Telstar Regional High School in Bethel spent a night at the University of Maine earlier this month, and the Sun Journal reports the visit is inspiring some students to give serious thought to their academic future. While on campus, the students ate at the Hilltop Dining facility and visited the Emera Astronomy Center, Advanced Structures and Composites Center, Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center and Foster Center for Student Innovation. They also met with an admissions counselor, who told them that doing well in high school will allow them to get more financial aid to attend UMaine. “It was most memorable for me to talk to the admissions counselor,” Katherine Haley told the Sun Journal. “I was afraid I might not be able to go to college, so it’s good to know it’s going to be easier than I thought to get scholarships.”